The Presence in Our Home

My old house that I used to live in with my mother, step father, sister,
brother, and three step siblings, was an old, large house. Everything seemed
fine with the house when we first moved in, but after we got settled I felt
uneasy and uncomfortable -- especially when I would have to walk from my
room down the large long dark hallway to the bathroom. The place in the
house that I felt most uneasy about was the bottom of the staircase. I would
always hesitate to look at it in case something was there.

One day me and my friend were sitting in the lounge room which when you look
out the door, gives you a direct view to the bottom of the stairs. Me and my
friend were having a chat, relaxed as ever, when my friend casually looks to
the side and out the door and screams! I could instantly tell that this
wasn't a put on scream. It was a scream for something that takes you by
surprise and terrifies you. What freaked me out the most was it was broad
daylight.

My friend leapt up and ran out of the house. I ran out after her and ask her
what's wrong. She calmed down and explained to me that she saw and old woman
at the bottom of the stairs with her head down and her hand on the banister.

My friend's not the only person to see things. There is a window that looks
to the upstairs and you can see in from downstairs. My brother has seen
figures moving across the window many times before. I started feeling so
uncomfortable about the hallway that you walk down when you go through the
front door that I used to climb through my window to avoid having to do it.

Then one night we all experienced something. Everyone was asleep, all the
lights were off in the house, and it was silent. Then for no apparent reason
the TV in the lounge room turned on full blast static. My sister awoke (she
was closest to the lounge room) screaming and ever since, everyone has felt
uneasy in that house. We always feel a presence of something.